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Todd Whitson

Mar 30, 2016

CareDx has appointed Todd Whitson as its chief commercial officer. Most recently, Whitson served as the vice president of commercial operations at Ariosa Diagnostics, now a part of the Roche Group. He has also served as the vice president of sales at Genzyme Genetics, acquired by LabCorp.

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Mike Nolan

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Erica Ramos

Erica Ramos, president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, will join Geisinger National Precision Health at the end of May as the director and head of clinical and business development. Ramos was previously at Illumina, where she was associate director of market development in clinical genomics and lead the company's precision health and screening programs.

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May 22, 2018

Nathan Wood

Nathan Wood has been appointed as CEO of Swift Biosciences, replacing Mark Lewis, who became CEO last year. Most recently, Wood was president of synthetic genomics company SGI-DNA. Previously, he held leadership positions at several genomics and life sciences companies, including Life Technologies and Qiagen.

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William Denman

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L7 Informatics (formerly Lab7 Systems) has named Vasudev Rangadass as its CEO. Rangadass joined the company from NantHealth, where he served as chief strategy officer following NantHealth's acquisition of Net.Orange, a company Rangadass founded to provide enterprise solutions to the healthcare industry. Prior to Net.Orange he was the first employee of i2 Technologies.

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